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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 2,114
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National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/27/2008 | Age: 44 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers |
| PT WAS AT HOME USING A METAL GRINDER, GOT METAL SHAVINGS IN EYES |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/17/2008 | Age: 31 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers, Pipes |
| EYE INJURY FROM GRINDING A METAL PIPE. DX-ACUTE CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/15/2008 | Age: 37 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers |
| PT RECIEVED LACERATION OVER RIGHT EYE WHEN GRINDER WHEEL FLEW OFF AND STRUCK FACE, LACERATION ABOVER RIGHT EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/07/2008 | Age: 35 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers |
| 35 YO M FOREIGN BODY IN EYE AFTER USING ROTARY POLISHER ON METAL* |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/21/2008 | Age: 42 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers |
| CUT FINGER WITH GRINDER POWER TOOL, DX; FINGER LAC. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/27/2008 | Age: 34 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers |
| PT AT FRIENDS HOME USINGA GRINDER INJ L WRIST/ DX L WRIST 3CM DEEP LAC |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/18/2008 | Age: 42 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers |
| WAS USING GRINDER TO GRIND METAL AND PIECE OF METAL WENT INTO EYE DX- F/B |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/19/2008 | Age: 42 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers, Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| ACUTE 2 CM LAC. L MIDDLE & L RING FINGER'S WITH REPAIR:USING GRINDER, PICKING A BOLT, DISC SLIPPED, LACERATING 3RD & 4TH FINGERS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/16/2008 | Age: 39 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers |
| BILATERAL FINGER INJURIES FROM USING A GRINDING DISC AND CUTTING FINGERS. DX-BILATERAL LONG FINGER LACERATIONS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/14/2008 | Age: 31 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers |
| PT USING A POWER GRINDER ON METAL SUSTAINED A LACERATION TO FINGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/05/2008 | Age: 31 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers |
| PT WAS AT HOME USING A POWER GRINDING WHEEL, SAID THAT IT "EXPLODED" CA USING A RT CORNEAL ABRASION. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/04/2008 | Age: 42 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers |
| PT WITH LACERATION TO LEFT HAND AFTER SLIPPING AND FALLING ON GRINDER W HEEL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/27/2008 | Age: 50 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers |
| LAC TO HAND WHEN USING A POWER GRINDER TO CUT STEEL AND THE STEEL KICKE D BACK |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/23/2008 | Age: 41 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers, Eye protection devices |
| PT WITH FOREIGN BODY TO RIGHT EYE PT STATES WAS USING GRINDER AND WAS W EARING EYE PROTECTION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/11/2008 | Age: 26 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers |
| C/O FINGER PAIN, GRABBED AN ELECTRIC GRINDER, ONSET FINGER PAIN, CAUGHT FINGER IN GRINDER. DX-LACERATION FINGER. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/05/2008 | Age: 43 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Amputation |
| Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers |
| L INDEX FINGER PARTIAL AMPUTATION: GETTING READY TO USE *** GRINDER AT HOME, FINGER TIP CUT THRU DISTAL TUFT INCLUDING NAILBED,4 CM |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/28/2008 | Age: 46 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers, Power lawn mowers |
| PT GRINDING HIS POWER LAWN MOWER BLADE WITH A POWER GRINDER AND A PIOE CE OF METAL WENT INTO RIGHT EYE FB EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/22/2008 | Age: 26 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers |
| PT USING A POWER GRINDER AT HOME AND A PIECE OF THE BLADE BROKE OFF WEN T INTO LOWER ARM FB ARM |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/22/2008 | Age: 46 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers |
| PT USED ELECTRIC GRINDER -GRINDING METAL YEST,WEARING SAFETY GLASSES BUT STILL GOT SOMETHING IN EYE,DX L CORNEAL FOREIGN BODY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/11/2008 | Age: 35 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers |
| PT USING A POWER GRINDER SUSTAINED A LACERATION TO FINGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/07/2008 | Age: 27 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Avulsion |
| Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers |
| PT USING A POWER GRINDER AND SUSTAINED AN AVULSION TO RIGHT INDEX FINGE R |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/17/2008 | Age: 42 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers, Motor vehicles or parts |
| REPORTS ACCIDENTALLY GOT A PIECE OF METAL INTO EYE WHILE HIS FRIEND WAS GRINDING MEATL ON A CAR >> FOREING BODY REMOVAL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/07/2008 | Age: 33 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers |
| PT WAS AT HOME, USING A METAL GRINDER, LACERATED RT THUMB. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/04/2008 | Age: 43 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers |
| PT AT UNSTATED LOCALE USING A POWER GRINDER POSS FB R EYE/ DX FB R EYE WITH CONJUNCTVITIS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/23/2008 | Age: 45 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers |
| PT WORKING WITH A POWER GRINDER AND GOT A PIECE OF METAL IN RIGHT EYE F B EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/11/2008 | Age: 36 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers |
| PT WAS AT HOME USING A GRINDER, GOT METAL SHAVINGS IN LT EYE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/05/2008 | Age: 43 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers |
| PATIENT HURT WHEN USING GRINDER AT HOME DX: RT EYE CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/22/2008 | Age: 29 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers |
| LAC TO LEG WHEN USING A GRINDER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/13/2008 | Age: 46 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers, Welding equipment |
| PT AT HOME GRINDING AND WELDING METAL POSS FB R EYE/ DX FB R CORNEA |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/26/2008 | Age: 41 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers |
| PT WITH PIECE OF METAL FROM SHOP GRINDER IN RIGHT EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/13/2008 | Age: 27 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers |
| PT WITH LACERATION TO LEFT INDEX FINGER AFTER WHEEL OF GRINDER CAME OFF STRIKING PT CAUSING LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/09/2008 | Age: 46 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Pubic Region | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers |
| PT WITH LACERATION TO SCROTUM AFTER USING A GRINDER AND PLATE ON GRINDE R CAME OFF STRIKING PT CAUSING LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/05/2008 | Age: 46 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers |
| PT WAS WORKING WITH A GRINDER WHEN THE WHEEL FLEW OFF STRIKING RIGHT HA ND OPEN FRACTURE TO HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/28/2008 | Age: 47 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers, Motor vehicles or parts |
| GOT PIECE OF DEBRIS INTO EYE GRINDING METAL UNDER HIS CAR >>FBR |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/10/2008 | Age: 49 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers |
| PT WITH LACERATION TO LEFT #5 FINGER AFTER USING GRINDER AND FINGER SLI PPED CAUSING LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/01/2008 | Age: 42 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers |
| PT WAS AT HOME USING A POWER GRINDER WHEN IT KICKED BACK CAUSING A LACERATION TO NOSE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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